Fer’sulan Ahernal had submitted his citizenship paperwork just after bringing his latest completed work to the Silver City. Nerithil Valarieth had given him the honor of a resourceful point in the right direction. After a brief acquantancing, Fer’sulan took great care to meticulously place the articulate tome that was his Treatise on Finance, itself mostly authored in Helena, at the dais of the Eternal Library.
The nearing-300 Mali’Aheral did not linger long. He knew he would have to practice patience. As he paced off toward the city gates he wondered frankly on how the Treatise might be received, for its opinionated rhetoric concerned affairs deeper than mere currency symbols...